Shut Up & Play The Guitar, Ted Nugent!

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Shut Up & Play The Guitar, Ted Nugent!

By Linda Seccaspina

I USED TO LOVE YOU, TED NUGENT!

Once upon a time, I used to go to your concerts and fight to the front row as I thought you were a great guitarist. I closed my eyes to your love of guns and hunting, and even years later, I still have an old framed picture of you on the wall.

Ted, what the hell are you thinking speaking like that about the President of the United States? Have you got some sort of Cat Scratch Fever?

Who in their right mind says things like you did when you gave gave an interview to conservative radio host Dana Loesch on Tuesday? Or at last weekend’s NRA conference in St Louis, Mo.

“I’m a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally,” the rock star complained to Loesch. “And there are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.”

Nugent continued: “I spoke at the NRA and will stand by my speech. It’s 100 percent positive. It’s about we the people taking back our American dream from the corrupt monsters in the federal government under this administration, the communist czars he has appointed.”

The U.S. Secret Service is now investigating Nugent for saying at a NRA convention over the weekend that if Barack Obama won re-election, he’ll “either be dead or in jail by this time next year. We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.”

Sadly, “Uncle Ted” has now lost his effen mind and turned into a hateful unthinking rightwing lunatic. But Nugent’s poisonous rants are dangerous. One-way thinkers like Nugent, Limbaugh, Palin, and Fox News seem confused between free speech and hate speech. One is a given right — the other is a crime.

Ted, sad to say, is no longer one of my guitar heroes and if music icon Frank Zappa was still alive today he would email the heavy-metal guitarist and say:

“Just shut up and play your damn guitar!”

You can hear his venomous “self-evident truth” in the clips below.:

Linda Seccaspina loves snark and scandal and can’t wait for Beyoncé to get busted for faking her pregnancy. She writes regularly for the dating site Zoomers. Follow her on Twitter @@Mcpheeeeee.